But Sir, It's Wafer Thin!!!

[Evan Simpson]

Robert Kern has already responded with the general Windows answer, but for
W95 and beyond, don't screw with autoexec.bat and the global path.  Just add
the TCL directory to pythonw.exe's application path.  In regedit, find key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths".
Look for "pythonw.exe" (*not* "python.exe") under this key.  Either add or
edit string value "Path" to include the TCL DLL directory.  You don't need
to include your whole usual path, or any reference to %PATH, since App Paths
are simply added to the global path for invocations of the app.

David Oppenheimer <davidopp at megsinet.net> wrote in message
news:37CA141D.41285EFD at megsinet.net...
I only have a small question.  In fact you might say its wafer thin.
Q: What path declarations do I need to place into my autoexec.bat file so
that my computer will be able to run Python Scripts?
For some reason I am able to run at the interactive window in Pythonwin but
can't run any file that is a python script...I tried to run an example that
comes with the distribution called painter.py and the error I get is this
"WHOOPS!  I can't find a Tcl/Tk 8.0 installation anywhere.  Please make sure
that Tcl.Tk 8.0 is installed and that the PATH environment variable is set
to include the Tcl/bin directory
(or wherever TK80.DLL and TCL80.DLL are installed)."  The debugger tells me
this "Import Error: DLL load failed: One of the library files needed to run
this application cannot be found."    I used the find command to locate both
of these dll's and they are here C:\TclPlug\2.0\bin
I didn't do anything weird when installing Python on my Win98 machine.
Chose the 1.5.2 install downloaded and installed it (I am under the
understanding that this includes all needed Tcl software for Tkinter).  I
also installed the additional 3MB win32 all.
Python and Pythonwin are located here C:\Program Files\Python\Pythonwin
Do I need just one path declaration or multiple path declarations and how
would they look?  My only other experience with this kind of stuff was with
setting up a pathway for a compiler and it was well documented that my path
declaration for the Mingw32 compiler should look just like this....
PATH=c:\mingw32\bin;
Please help...I need to get over this little bump in the road and then I
will be on my way to complete mastery of this language...lol  Just a little
help...wafer thin...just point me in the right direction...tell me I failed
to adequately search the docs...anything...except don't send the Spanish
Inquisition.
David O.